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I just read a discussion of the DVD of this film, and it appears NOT to be as the original theatrical release...some editing and an optically censored naked woman.What's up with this ? I'm glad I didnt purchase this.
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I do think it's unfortunate, but we don't have much choice if we want to see the movie at home.Since David Lynch is behind making this change, would condemning it make one like the busybody producer who encourages him to change his "vision" in a final cut?
Peter Wier's director's cut of Picnic at Hanging Rock on DVD is shorter than the theatrical release. Does that make it worse, or a "tighter" film?
Would you prefer that the Storytelling DVD leave in the big red rectangle because that was the theatrical release we saw (and the artist's F-U statement to the MPAA)?
What about Stanley Kubrick preferring 4:3 framing for the video release of some of his films (shooting with both theatrical and standard TV framing in mind)? Kubrick preferred tall pictures.
I don't think it's a clear black and white issue. Director's intent vs theatrical release, historical record vs DVD changes. E.T., Star Wars, Touch of Evil, Suspicion, etc.
I recently saw Scorsese interviewed about whether he'd like to fix up some of his films for DVD release, like undoing the faded colors for the end of Taxi Driver. He said that for whatever reasons he had to make any changes (pressure from MPAA, studio heads, etc.), he prefers that his movies be left as is. I was surprised to hear that.
Lynch's excuse for the vagina blurring had to do with not wanting to see the naked image of the actor on the Internet. Kind of a lame excuse for treating the audience with little ? It seems that Lynch would rather indulge his female actor's , than keep the integrity of his film. If she didnt want to be in his film, in the first place, let her do something else, other than be part of a whole artistic vision.There is something else going on here about the blurring, that has yet to be fully disclosed by Lynch and the studio.
Only two seconds of blurring makes it a bad choice on Lynch's part. I didnt pick up the DVD because of this...I know that they will come out with a "Special Edition" and didnt want to get caught up in the scam of a reissue of the...ahem...original.
The question is...what excuse will Lynch come up with the next time ?
that doesn't seem so bad, if that's all that was censored...I saw the DVD last week; the scene you refer to is of no consequence either way...
FWIW, the naked woman is censored on the VHS version, too.AS
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